Black Ninja · Battle Beast

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 17-20 and 33-35, and 3 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BLACK NINJA · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 28, 36, 40, 48, 52 and 7 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 12 sections: 57 keep time, 13 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-11.

PART B
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesABKES10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Ninja?

84 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Black Ninja hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Black Ninja?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 28, 36, 40, 48, 52 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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